In the race for the best AI, the technology group Alibaba gets support for the Chinese Ki Startup Manus AI.
• Hard competition for artificial intelligence
• Alibaba closes partnership with Manus Ai
• Ki model from Manus Ai should be able to recognize emotions
Using export controls for high-performance chips as well as restrictions on AI software and cloud services, the USA wants to slow the USA China in the AI race. Nevertheless, the competition from the Middle Kingdom is caught.
China picks up in the AI race
In January 2025, the Chinese Ki Startup Deepseek shaked the Tech world when it released its new AI model Deepseek-R1, which is intended to offer a performance that can compete with Openai or Meta products-at significantly lower training costs. In addition, Deepseek-R1 should be able to run on less powerful chips.
Just two days later, the IT giant Alibaba surprisingly added in the race for AI dominance and published a new version of its artificial intelligence model QWEN 2.5, which should be superior to Deepseek and Chatgpt. In February, Alibaba then announced that they would like to invest at least 380 billion yuan (the equivalent of around 49 billion euros) in artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in the next three years in order to further expand its own infrastructure in these areas.
Cooperation with Manus Ai
As “Reuters” reports, Alibaba took another step in March to secure an advantage in this race. Accordingly, the Chinese company Manus Ai announced a strategic partnership with the team behind the Qwen Ki models from Alibaba. This step could support the introduction of the first general AI agent worldwide through the AI startup. In contrast to a chat bot, a AI agent can not only provide ideas for a solution, but also act like a digital employee who performs tasks independently and with minimal requests.
Manus Ai claims that the performance of his product exceeds the AI agent of Openai, Deepresearch. However, the AI agent is only accessible on invitation, and its website still has to deal with malfunctions, as the company granted “Reuters”. The now agreed partnership could help manus to cope with the increase in data traffic and to expand its user base, while Alibaba hopes to be able to gain an advantage over competitors such as Deepseek.
A few days earlier, Manus Ai had put the AI industry into turmoil when a general AI agent was brought into the beta test phase, according to the company information it should even be able to recognize emotions. According to “Börsensnews”, critics fear that the era of artificial general intelligence (AGI) could start faster than previously assumed.
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